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1/2 Paisa - Tipu Sultan Patan mint
| Issuer | Mysore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1791-1794 |
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| Value | 1/2 Paisa (1⁄512) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب پتن |
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Tipu Sultan overhauled Mysore's entire coinage system after taking the throne, introducing a new calendar, new mint names, and new weight standards simultaneously — a administrative rupture with both Mughal convention and his father Hyder Ali's issues. The Patan mint, one of several he operated across his kingdom, struck copper low-denomination pieces primarily to supply local bazaar commerce in the southern territories.
These were minted during the years bracketing the Third Anglo-Mysore War, when Tipu's treasury was under sustained pressure from British campaign costs and the 1792 Treaty of Seringapatam ultimately forced him to cede half his territories and pay a war indemnity of over three crore rupees.